Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Hirsch wrote:
> I seem to recall a Cleveland Symphonic Winds LP with Louis Lane (I 
> think) that included the Royal Fireworks on Telarc that was either D to 
> D or one of the early digitally recorded efforts. Wait a minute; never 
> mind -- I just went and dug out a CD release of this and it has 
> Frederick Fennell conducting and it says "During the recording of the 
> digital masters and the subsequent transfer to disc, the signal was not 
> passed through any processing device at any step during production." The 
> recording date is April 1978 and I am sure that I heard the LP version 
> not too long after that and it made enough of an impression on me that, 
> almost thirty years later, I recalled it's exceptional presence. 
> Probably the first time I heard digital in any form and it was a pretty 
> ear-opening contrast to what I was used to. Of course, having the 
> Cleveland Orchestra's woodwinds and brass (not too many years 
> post-Szell) playing the gig under the great Windmeister may have been 
> part of why it was so effective.
>
> Anyone out there have the vinyl and care to share your impression of the 
> sound?

But the LP matrix was cut from the digital master as they said. Telarc 
did many such - I've half a dozen or more - but they used a digital 
intermediate instead of a tape intermediate, a difference that still 
puts a pair of interfaces between the preamp and the disc.

There was another D2D label of some interest, Crystal Clear. 
Unfortunately, neither of the LPs I have of theirs (Fiedler with the 
Pops and Virgil Fox on the organ) is sonically or musically interesting.

Mike
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